Høg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hawk (bird of the genus Accipiter)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/høːˀɣ/(recorded in a dictionary) Danish · from Wiktionary
Høg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 14K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
- DEGermany≈1 in 110Kfew recordsas Hog
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Høg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈770 named Hog, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hog in US United States, Hög in DE Germany, Hoeg in CA Canada and Höeg in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)hawk (bird of the genus Accipiter)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Høg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Hög | 53 |
| US United States | — | 482as Hoeg | 1 in 690K | 518 | Hog | 190 |
| DK Denmark | #725 | 414 | 1 in 14K | 414 | Høg | 54 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Hoeg | 43 |
| FR France | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 805K | 7 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 422K | 4 | Höeg | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | listed | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Høg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, high, tall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Just Høgb. 1584DKDanish statesman and landowner
- Erik Høgb. 1932DKDanish astrophysicist
- Torkil Høgb. 1970Danish lawyer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 414 | #1,068 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Høg mean, and where does it come from?
- hawk (bird of the genus Accipiter) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Høg?
- In Danish /høːˀɣ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Høg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 768 people named Hog in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Høg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Høg is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Høg?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 414 people named Høg, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Høg compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Høg is the 725th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Høg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%B8gThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Høg” — the 725th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.